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4CX1000A

The doorbell rang, I answered it, and there was someone at the door who wanted to see the public file.

An actual member of the public, I mean.
 
that was kinda my question, unless someone was just a radio crazy trying to get into the building, or someone with an axe to grind about the stations programming looking for a deficient public inspection file to lay the groundwork for a denial of renewal for failing to act in the public interest, or a FCC regulations violation, why would anyone ever have a reason to look at that file.

The amount of regulatory fecal matter that goes along with that file is a total waste of time, resources, and paper.
 
Just remember the termite in the Terminix commercial.
 
Maybe he read the thread here on R-I about inspecting the public file and just wanted to give it a whirl.
 
I have only seen it happen once. The local cable
company sent somebody to our little TV station,
trying to build a case, so the cable did not need to carry
us. It didn't work....
 
Happens all the time here. My guess is the broadcasting schools may it a project for their students looking at the age of most of them.
 
MRBIboredop said:
In the Boston market or somewhere close by?

Just curious in case they are going to be making the rounds looking for something.
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Boston market. The guy said he was a musician looking for ammunition to use in support of proposed performance rights legislation (the so-called "radio tax").
 
MRBIboredop said:
The amount of regulatory fecal matter that goes along with that file is a total waste of time, resources, and paper.
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Would it be acceptable to the FCC for a station to post its public file on a Web site instead of keeping it as a paper file?
 
4CX1000A said:
MRBIboredop said:
The amount of regulatory fecal matter that goes along with that file is a total waste of time, resources, and paper.
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Would it be acceptable to the FCC for a station to post its public file on a Web site instead of keeping it as a paper file?
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TV licensees are required to do so, and I see nothing in the rules that would prohibit radio licensees from doing the same. It can also be kept in electronic form on a computer at the station, provided the public has the same access as they would to paper files and the same ability to make copies.
 
The guy said he was a musician looking for ammunition to use in support of proposed performance rights legislation (the so-called "radio tax").
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Eh? He's gonna be hard-pressed to find anything in the Public File that'll help or hurt in that quest. Did he think that radio stations still had to log everything they played on the air and keep that in the Public File?

radio stations have the option of posting public file info on their websites.
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That's correct. The only caveat is that you must have a computer with a printer (or some means of making a hard copy) at the station for the public to use in order to view the Public File. A lot of the bigger networks have moved the bulk of their public files online...Minnesota Public Radio comes to mind as one that's done a really good job of it, too.
 
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